Our Proposal
Home - a place where one can live and feel comfortable.
Dorm - home for a college kid
Dorm - home for a college kid
Choosing where you would like to live can be a difficult task, but one thing to remember is, you don't always get what you want. In order to be the most comfortable, there should be some form of equality between the large variety of dorm complexes. The main factors that help determine the quality and livability, are location, furniture, and appliances. Sometimes, living space is an important factor, but college kids know how to make things work.
Location is the most important factor in where your residence hall is located, because it can determine the distance or proximty of placees you need to get to. . Whether you're walking to class or to getting food, you want your home to be near so you are not discouraged to go out when you want to. One would also want a convenient location in the event that you get stuck in a dorm that doesn't have a place to spend your dining meal. Sometimes, you have to walk to a different facility just to make sure you don't miss out on your meal for that day.
This is something that we would like to see changed. The convenience of a food market is a necessity for college students living in a dorm because we LOVE to eat, and it is nice to not have to walk very far every day. We have enough workout facilities on campus to keep us in shape, the everyday walks can become very annoying over time. We feel that every residence hall should at least have a market to get food. This could be accomplished by taking one of the many lounges, and converting it into a small space to sell various food items.
Next is the quality of the standard furniture and appliances that are available when you move in. The newer residence halls all have air conditioning, and a higher ratio of washing/drying machines to floors. From what we have seen of the different laundry facilities, we feel that many of the older washers and dryers could be replaced with the stackable washers and dryers, to give us more in the same amount of space.
The furniture in some of the older residence halls like LaFollette, Johnson, and Noyer seem to be a little out dated. We feel that we deserve some of the nicer furniture that residence halls such as DeHority, Park, and Kinghorn all have. This could be done by selling the older furniture, and purchasing newer furniture for the residence halls. I know that this sounds like an odd way to assist students in improving the quality of their dorm life, but it would actually help a lot. Sitting on wooden chairs for a long period of time is not always the best feeling. This could result in students not sitting for a long period of time while trying to concentrate on doing work in their room.
As understood, some people don't always have the same opinion or outlook on what we are conveying in our proposal. Some of the complaints will most likely be related to money, as are most complaints. As stated earlier, it would make furniture arrangements better if the older furnishings were sold to contribute into funding newer and nicer furniture. If we are correct, then according to our surveys and interviews, most students would be willing to pay a little bit more to have a better quality of living in their room. Also, by getting more energy efficient appliances we could reduce our electricity use.
Once again, according to our surveys and interviews, students think that by putting convenience stores in each residence hall less students will become sick and be able to attend their classes to keep good grades. Another argument for this would be space; however, in many of the residence halls that we inspected, there was plenty of extra room in the study lounges or main lounge that could be used for something better. We feel that one way to solve this problem would be to utilise the excess space in the study lounges which would help contribute towards renovating the building to have a convenience store or market.
Once again, according to our surveys and interviews, students think that by putting convenience stores in each residence hall less students will become sick and be able to attend their classes to keep good grades. Another argument for this would be space; however, in many of the residence halls that we inspected, there was plenty of extra room in the study lounges or main lounge that could be used for something better. We feel that one way to solve this problem would be to utilise the excess space in the study lounges which would help contribute towards renovating the building to have a convenience store or market.
